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  1. 3 Quarks Daily Science Blogging Prize: Each year, 3 Quarks Daily sponsors prizes for blogging in different areas... bit.ly/NeTw91 10:36 AM May 30th via twitterfeed
  2. Quantum Mechanics When You Close Your Eyes: Here’s a fun thing that has been zipping around the internets this w... bit.ly/Kpz9Fk 12:23 PM May 25th via twitterfeed
  3. Dark Matter: Still Existing (One in a Continuing Series): Last month we mentioned a paper on the arxiv that made... bit.ly/KehMqE 11:23 AM May 23rd via twitterfeed
  4. Guest Post: Marc Sher on the Open Textbook Movement: The price of university textbooks (not to mention scholarly... bit.ly/JznQgb 10:45 AM May 21st via twitterfeed
  5. Higgs Ripples in the Koi Pond: On local TV last night, I somehow got reporter Dave Malkoff to take a stab at exp... bit.ly/JZxDGg 10:39 AM May 10th via twitterfeed
  6. Dark Matter vs. Modified Gravity: A Trialogue: It’s well known that all of our evidence for dark matter (and dar... bit.ly/LPmA8U 10:18 AM May 9th via twitterfeed
  7. The Case for Naturalism: “Atheism” is a fine word, and I’m happy to describe myself as an atheist. God is an ide... bit.ly/KPHlyi 9:35 AM May 7th via twitterfeed
  8. Avengers Assemble!: Mostly I’m holed up at home these days, pounding out paragraph after paragraph about the LHC... bit.ly/KhTgEU 11:38 AM May 4th via twitterfeed
  9. Astronomy at the Philadelphia Science Festival: I should have advertised this ahead of time, but even though I’m... bit.ly/Ky960S 6:00 PM Apr 30th via twitterfeed
  10. Wrapping Up the Semester: Fests, Workshops and Exams: We are very close to the end of the semester here at Penn,... bit.ly/Jpr1np 4:54 AM Apr 30th via twitterfeed
  11. A Universe from Nothing?: Some of you may have been following a tiny brouhaha (“kerfuffle” is so overused, don’t... bit.ly/Kh2Fiq 3:17 PM Apr 28th via twitterfeed
  12. PhD Comics Explains the Higgs Boson: Jorge Cham visits CERN, and comes back with tales of particles and mass. bit.ly/KeuLXi 8:41 AM Apr 26th via twitterfeed
  13. What Particle Are You?: A flowchart I put together for the upcoming book. Feel free to spread around, with appro... bit.ly/JOtIRX 8:53 AM Apr 25th via twitterfeed
  14. The Particle At the End of the Universe: Speaking of writing popular books, I’m at it again. I’m currently hard ... bit.ly/IgHLLD 4:19 PM Apr 24th via twitterfeed
  15. Aiming at Different Audiences: When I wrote From Eternity to Here, I was faced with a perennial problem for pop-... bit.ly/JEbXQY 11:07 AM Apr 22nd via twitterfeed
  16. Puzzles!: Science keeps advancing, in fits and starts. It was a good week for intriguing results from experiment... bit.ly/JpfNNF 10:02 AM Apr 20th via twitterfeed
  17. Jon Stewart Doesn’t Understand How Science Works Even a Little Bit: I love Jon Stewart’s work on The Daily Show,... bit.ly/IF6rMn 10:09 AM Apr 17th via twitterfeed
  18. Is Physics Among the Dysfunctional Sciences?: Sorry for a post title that will attract the crazies. Carl Zimmer ... bit.ly/J3YPUT 3:38 PM Apr 16th via twitterfeed
  19. Quantum Mechanics and Decision Theory: Several different things (all pleasant and work-related, no disasters) ha... bit.ly/J5nlYs 8:25 AM Apr 16th via twitterfeed
  20. de Sitter Space and Cosmology: A standard topic in an introductory General Relativity (GR) course is the study o... bit.ly/ITuCwz 6:12 AM Apr 15th via twitterfeed